Dear Friends, As summer unfolds around us, I enjoy the change of rhythm in village life. Gardens bloom with colour, the washing flaps on the line, there are children enjoying themselves outside, and neighbours pause a little longer for conversation in the sunshine. Whether we are enjoying long evenings, tending our gardens, walking familiar paths, … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, This newsletter is written in the church season of Epiphany, and is in circulation during Lent, Easter and Pentecost – a veritable feast of church seasons! On the day this letter was written, Matthew and I were enjoying our breakfast when we heard the newsreader say rather gloomily that we have now had … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, As the nights draw in and winter begins to settle gently around us, our world begins to shimmer with a quiet kind of beauty. And it is that shimmer that carries through the winter months that I love. For I find there is something comforting about the light at this time of year … [Read more…]
Dear Friends,As the crisp air of autumn begins to settle in and the leaves startto turn their brilliant shades of red and gold, we are remindedonce again of the beauty of God’s creation and the changingseasons of life. The squirrels are running around the trees anddoing their aerial acrobatics in the Rectory garden, chattering andsquabbling … [Read more…]
Jo, our Rector, the bride, married on the 24 May at St Michaels, Stanton Harcourt, one of her own Churches to Matthew – officiated by Matthew’s father. Congratulations and all good wishes for happiness to them both.
Dear Friends, As I write this we are in the middle of a long spell of unseasonably warm weather. I have lost count of the amount of washing loads I have achieved in the last two weeks! Children and school staff are on their Easter break, and we are about to head into Holy Week; … [Read more…]
Dear Friends, As I write this, the cold grip of winter seems to be firmly holding us! But a walk onto the bank of the stream at the bottom of the Rectory garden yesterday reminded me that the grip slowly loosens and the first signs of spring are beginning to appear. Snowdrops and tender petalled … [Read more…]
Congratulations to Sarah Sharp, our former Rector,who was installed as an Honorary Cannon of Christchurch on 1 February 2025
Dear Friends, Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.’ This famous bible passage is often used in helping people to make their friendship or relationship work: do not let the sun go down on your anger? How does any friendship or relationship work? Whether that is … [Read more…]